Robert Jackson

Associate Professor of Law (2010)

Office: Columbia Law School
435 West 116th Street
New York NY 10027
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Robert J. Jackson, Jr. is currently serving as an advisor on executive compensation and corporate governance to senior officials at the Department of the Treasury and as Deputy Special Master for TARP Executive Compensation, and will join the Columbia Law School faculty in July 2010. His research interests emphasize empirical study of corporate governance matters. Before his most recent government service, Jackson practiced at Wachtell, Lipton, Rosen & Katz in the Executive Compensation and Benefits Department, was the Terence M. Considine Research Fellow in Law and Economics at Harvard Law School and the Editor of the Harvard Law School Forum on Corporate Governance and Financial Regulation, and served as a Law Clerk to the Hon. Amalya L. Kearse on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit. During law school, Jackson served as Articles Co-Chair of the Harvard Law Review. He received his J.D. from Harvard Law School, an M.A. in Public Policy from Harvard’s Kennedy School of Government, an M.B.A. from the Wharton School, a Bachelor of Arts in politics, philosophy, and economics, and a Bachelor of Science in Economics with an emphasis on finance, after also studying at Pembroke College at Oxford University.

Forthcoming and Recent Publications:
 
  • “Private Equity and Executive Compensation” (forthcoming 2010)
  • “A New Model of Administrative Enforcement,” 93 Va. L. Rev. 1983 (2007) (with David Rosenberg)
  • “Executive Pensions,” 30 J. Corp. L. 823 (2005) (with Lucian A. Bebchuk) (noted in the New York Times, The Economist and the Wall Street Journal)
  • “Comments on Proposed Rules for Disclosing Executive Retirement Benefits,” as filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission (April 2006) (with Lucian A. Bebchuk & Jesse Fried).
  • Note, “Rethinking Retroactivity,” 118 Harv. L. Rev. 1642 (205)
  • “Nine Justices, Ten Years: A Statistical Retrospective,” 118 Harv. L. Rev. 510 (2004).
  • Comment, “State Sentencing Guidelines—Sixth Amendment,” 118 Harv. L. Rev. 333 (2004) (cited in United States v. Booker, 543 U.S. 220 (2005) (Breyer, J., dissenting).
  • “Appellate Procedure—Force of Circuit Precedent,” 117 Harv. L. Rev. 719 (2003).